1832 in literature

Events

• Houghton, Mifflin[?] publishing house founded in Boston, Massachusetts
• Publishers begin the use of a paper jacket to wrap book covers
• Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe completes Faust

New Books

• Castle Dangerous[?] - Sir Walter Scott
• Combination[?] - Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna[?]
• Contarini Fleming[?] - Benjamin Disraeli
• Count Robert of Paris[?] - Sir Walter Scott
• The Doomed One[?] - Rosalia St. Clair[?]
• Eugene Aram[?] - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
• The Fair of Mayfair[?] - Catherine Gore[?]
• Fitzallan[?] - Robert Huish[?]
• Indiana[?] - George Sand
• Legend of the Moor's Legacy[?] - Washington Irving
• Nautical Reminiscences[?] - Nathaniel Ames[?]
• Newton Forster[?] - Frederick Marryat
• The Opera[?] - Catherine Gore[?]
• The Unchanged[?] - Selina Davenport[?]
• Valentine[?] - George Sand
• Volupte[?] - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Births

• January 13 - Horatio Alger, Jr., writer (+ 1899)
• January 27 - Lewis Carroll, author (+ 1898)
• November 29 - Louisa May Alcott, author (+ 1888)
• Hesba Stretton[?], English children's author (+ 1911)

Deaths

• March 22 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer and poet
• September 21 - Sir Walter Scott, Scottish historical novelist and poet

Awards